Editing Natalie Wood (section)

===Peak years of stardom===
Wood sang when she starred in the film ''[[Gypsy (1962 film)|Gypsy]]'' (1962) alongside [[Rosalind Russell]].{{sfn|Lambert|2004|p=185}}<ref>{{Citation | title = Natalie Wood in 'Gypsy' | work = The Christian Science Monitor | place = Boston, MA | date = Nov 7, 1961 | page= 6}}.</ref> Her appearance in that film led critic [[Pauline Kael]] to comment "clever little Natalie Wood… [the] most machine-tooled of Hollywood ingénues."<ref>{{cite book | chapter = Review of "Gypsy" | orig-date = 1962 | title = [[I Lost It at the Movies]]|first=Pauline|last=Kael|authorlink=Pauline Kael | year = 1965 | page = 131|isbn= 978-0316481656|publisher= [[Little Brown & Co]]}}</ref><ref name=Tibbetts />

At the age of 25, Wood received her third Academy Award nomination for ''[[Love with the Proper Stranger]]'' (1963), making Wood (along with [[Teresa Wright]]) the youngest person to score three Oscar nominations. This record was later broken by [[Jennifer Lawrence]] in 2013 and [[Saoirse Ronan]] in 2017, both of whom scored their third nominations at the age of 23.

Wood made two comedies with [[Tony Curtis]]: ''[[Sex and the Single Girl (film)|Sex and the Single Girl]]'' (1964) and ''[[The Great Race]]'' (1965), the latter with [[Jack Lemmon]], and [[Peter Falk]]. In ''The Great Race'', her ability to speak Russian was an asset given to her character Maggie DuBois, justifying the character's recording the progress of the race across [[Siberia]] and entering the race at the beginning as a contestant.

Director [[Sydney Pollack]] was quoted as saying about Wood, "When she was right for the part, there was no one better. She was a damn good actress." For ''[[Inside Daisy Clover]]'' (1965) and ''[[This Property Is Condemned]]'' (1966), both of which co-starred [[Robert Redford]], Wood received Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. In the mid 1960s she was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood along with Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn.<ref>{{Citation | title = Natalie Wood: Splendid Splinter | last = Haber | first = Joyce | newspaper =[[Los Angeles Times]] | date = December 3, 1967 | page = d10}}.</ref>

[[File:Peter Falk and Natalie Wood - 1966.jpg|thumb|left|With [[Peter Falk]] in [[Penelope (1966 film)|''Penelope'']] (1966)]]
Although many of Wood's films were commercially successful, at times her acting was criticized. In 1966, Wood was given ''[[the Harvard Lampoon]]'' award for being the "Worst Actress of Last Year, This Year, and Next".<ref>{{cite web | title = A pair of Natalie Wood awards from The Harvard Lampoon and The Harvard Crimson |url= https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22486/lot/34/ | website = Bonhams | access-date = May 3, 2019 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190503075920/https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22486/lot/34/ | archive-date = May 3, 2019 | url-status = live}}</ref> She was the first person to attend and accept the award in person. ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]'' wrote she was "quite a good sport".<ref>{{cite journal | last = Alexander | first = Jeffrey C. | date = April 18, 1966 | title = Lampoon Fixes Date With Natalie; Wood Will Win 'Worst' on Saturday | journal = [[The Harvard Crimson]] |url= http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=493919 | access-date = September 30, 2007 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071126084632/http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=493919 | archive-date = November 26, 2007 | url-status = live }}</ref>